I see some people that say that they need the Silverlight plugin. Yet I can not think of, do not know of, a site that uses it. And I do not recall anyone actually posting a link to 'this mystery site'.?? I have never had this plugin installed myself. Ever.

I see others insisting that they need the Java plugin for 'some mystery site' but once again I can not think of any site, not one, that requires it. A default install of the Java.exe does not enable the java browser plugin. And Oracle is working on dumping it.

Could someone clear this up? Or am I seeing 'well we always did it that way' stuff.

Valid question Just as a swag need for these plugins would most probably be legacy software in universities and various industries. Been a long time since I even installed JAVA on any of my home pc's and I don't think I ever installed Silverlight.

What sort of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter."Terry Pratchett"

The Tinsmith wrote:I see others insisting that they need the Java plugin for 'some mystery site' but once again I can not think of any site, not one, that requires it. A default install of the Java.exe does not enable the java browser plugin. And Oracle is working on dumping it.

I still need the Java plugin for old Java games that don't work in appletviewer. The games were free downloads, so I just play them locally, it's not really a "site". Looks like most of the sites in question no longer exist, but this one is still going - http://www.javafile.com/

And also like malliz said, some people need specific old version of the Java plugin for legacy corporate software.

*Always* check the changelogs BEFORE updating that important software!

Netflix used to require Silverlight. I think they added support for HTML5 sometime in 2013. I'm not aware of any other popular/high traffic web sites that used it. Supposedly 0.1% of web sites currently use it.

It's a company thing. We just moved to SharePoint 2016, so getting off the old 2013 SharePoint site that still needs Silverlight will take a bit of time.

Ah. So you do have a solution. That is good. But you (your company) has seen that the latest Firefox ESR will, if I read it correctly, still support Silverlight for almost one more year?

However your company should not wait that long.

Company.s can do strange things. While in undergrad school I drove a delivery truck and the company would not repair or maintain it. I would think that they paid enough money having it towed to the shop for repairs to buy a new one.